The equivalence of numbers: The social value of avoiding health decline: An experimental web-based study

Table 3 Mean intervals and WAD for movements between health states

	Mean interval between health states
Health states	SG^§ [95% CI]	PTO-Down ° [95% CI]	PTO-Up^$ [95% CI]	WAD^* [95% CI]
A–B	0.0875 [0.0637–0.1113]	0.0480 [0.0223–0.0736]	0.0502 [0.0304–0.0700]	0.6443 [0.5811–0.7075]
A–C	0.2056 [0.1836–0.2276]	0.0778 [0.0488–0.1069]	0.1032 [0.0716–0.1348]	0.5248 [0.4616–0.5873]
A–D	0.4015 [0.3738–0.4292]	0.1484 [0.1111–0.1857]	0.1857 [0.1389–0.2325]	0.4748 [0.4066–0.5431]
A–E	0.5658 [0.5354–0.5961]	0.2977 [0.2487–0.3467]	0.3694 [0.3112–0.4277]	0.4919 [0.3951–0.5888]
A–F	1 --	1 --	1 --	0.5167 [0.3542–0.6791]

N = 127 Results of paired t-tests: ^§Significant different to PTO-Up at 1% or better; ° Significant different to SG at 1% or better; ^$Significant different to PTO-Down at 1% or better for A – E, at 10% for A – D and A – C; ^*WAD values were calculated as described in eq. 4.1 (section 5) of the study design

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